A quick post..

People like us who have a personal sort of blog, merely update them more than once a week. Its because, we lack a mindset to have the patience to recollect, organize and reproduce on keyboard. Consulting Digit, I got myself a new laptop, the well known and infamous Acer Aspire 5738. Digit describes it as a best buy. The only thing that's a con is the build quality of the keypad. May be Acer forgot about it completely. LOL
What's new, you get an Authentec Finger Print Reader, integrated for such a low price. Must say, this notebook tops the list in value for money. Still, there's more fault. Acer didnot give Finger Print Login Software for windows, although I got the correct drivers for the hardware. You have to download finger print logon software from authentec website. Or you can download Lenovo's Thinkvantage Logon software, which works perfect with this notebook.
Now, coming to OS, most people expected Vista Home Premium or Windows 7, but this is where the notebook wins, it comes pre-installed with Linux! Thus saving 5k bucks. We use pirated windows, so no one really wants to spend on Original Windows. The crystal Eye Webcam also turned out to be a winner. It is a VGA cam but Acer's crystal eye technology, makes it performance same for all lighting conditions. This cam is the best for video chatting! In all other cams I have used, video lags heavily in low light. Most of 'em are megapixel cams, resulting in higher video bit rate and thus more use of internet bandwidth, and if you are on a slow connection, video must lag.
A webcam is basically for video chatting and not for outdoor photography, so the image need not be a whopping 1280X1024. 800X600 will do and will be easier to transmit over slow Indian networks.
What's more? 4 gigs DDR2 RAM and a decent Core 2 Duo with 2.2gig clock lets you multitask quite well. Now don't expect me to say I got a Nvidia 9400. This book will just give you Intel Integrated GMA4500 MHD. Its decent though it cant run FarCry or GTA4 or NFS Shift.
I took two days to partition my drive, to decide the partition sizes. Now I have XP SP2 and 7 Ultimate X64 sitting on two partitions. The rest of them are soon going to get occupied with movies and stuff.
Bless the new 320 GB SATA HDD!!
All this stuff for just approx 33K in Bhubaneswar.